Word: songfulness
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Baio didn't make chiptune music himself, but he knew people who did. He bought the proper licensing rights to Kind of Blue and recruited five artists, each of whom agreed to cover one of the five tracks on the album. The musicians had three months to finish the songs. Baio gave them full artistic license; they could experiment or stay as true to the original song as they wanted. His only request was that the finished products retain some of Davis' original feeling and intensity. "Other than that, they were free to do whatever they felt," says Baio. "That...
Jazz musicians might consider Kind of Bloop heresy, but the video-game community can't wait to hear it. Gamers and programmers thrive off new genres; they flood the Internet with thousands of mash-ups and remixes when most people think one version of a song will do. In fact, Baio already has ideas for future chiptunes experiments: Delta blues, Motown, or maybe Joni Mitchell's Blue. He just doesn't want to be the one to produce them. "The Kind of Blue musicians came together for one album and then broke up. It was a onetime project and this...
Facebook • genuinely funny song about...
...taking a trip to Vegas. Or I'll go to Cape Cod with a book.' I don't think they're going to do that. I used to fish. I don't want to go back," he says. "That's the nature of people. It's like the old song, How you going to keep them down on the farm once they've been to gay Paris?" The last part, Adelson, whose bank account has been pretty much wiped out by the recession, sings. And rather well...
...smooth voice, multiplied into three-part harmony by Paul's studio gizmonics. She coos, "Somewhere there's mu-u-u-sic," coaxing four syllables out of the word by gliding over them rather than hiccuping through them. She wants the listener to know this is an up-tempo love song, not a stuttering novelty. In the bridge - "There is no moon above, and love is far away too" - she lightly swings "above" and "and love," almost gulping each first syllable. You expect her to do the same with "is far," but she smartly refuses to surrender to giddy syncopation...